Auswahl der wissenschaftlichen Literatur zum Thema „Brisbane Girls' Grammar School“

The manner in which secondary school education for girls was transforming within the Polish territories during the partitions period and under the II Republic of Poland is a complex issue which, on the one hand, inscribes into the educational policy executed by the partitioning states and later on by Polish authorities, while, on the other hand into a broad scope of changes regarding the social position of women. For a long time, girls were perceived, first and foremost, as future wives, mothers, and housekeepers. As a result, the need to create female grammar schools, that is, comprehensive schools that would prepare them for university studies, was disregarded. However, various post-primary schools were established with the aim to prepare girls for their future roles or, alternatively, provide qualifications enabling them to become school teachers. These schools could also be attended by those girls who wished to expand and supplement their general education. Not until the II Republic of Poland was the male and female school system standardised at the secondary level. Yet, girls continued to struggle to complete the secondary level of education due to a smaller number of state grammar schools addressed at female students.

In this study, the investigator attempted to study the relationship between English grammar competence and the English language attitude among the secondary school students at Puliangudi municipality in Tenkasi district. One hundred and ninety nine students studying in secondary school were the sample of the study. English grammar competence was measured by a test constructed and validated by the researcher. English language attitude tool was standardized by the researcher combine with my supervisor. The results revealed that there is a significant very low positive correlation between English grammar competence and the English language attitude among the secondary school students. Further, the high and low achievers showed a significant difference in their grammar competence. Boys and girls did not show any significant difference in both grammar competence and the English language attitude. The study has broad implications to be practised in second language.

AbstractDuring its 125-year history, the South Brisbane Municipal Chambers (Old Town Hall) has had numerous custodians and functions. Designed as a prominent landmark directly across the Brisbane River from the Queensland Parliament building, its ornate architectural features make it a unique example of late colonial extravagance. With the absorption of the City of South Brisbane into the greater Brisbane City Council in 1925, the building lost its original purpose, but was subsequently deployed in various ways. After serving as a Council Works Depot, it became the headquarters of the US armed forces Military Police during World War II, and was then converted into post-war residential flats for government engineers and architects. Since the late 1950s, ‘The Chambers’ has been an educational and cultural centre, initially as the first campus of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, then as a centre for adult learning, and finally now in its completely refurbished form as part of the girls’ school Somerville House. This ‘building biography’ traces the various phases of this iconic landmark from the viewpoint of those who worked, lived or studied there, and also provides insights into its social context within the South Brisbane community.

To situate the Aboriginal Studies program I am designing, I would need to say that in a Year 11 course in Religious Education at a Catholic Girls’ Independent (non-systemic) High School in Brisbane, the Semester 2 area is Morality and Justice and involves a consideration of personal decision making, understanding stages of moral development, individual/personal moral issues and social, moral and justice issues. (I should add that the school is almost totally non-Aboriginal although it is multi-ethnic to the extent that it runs ESL classes at each year level).

AbstractThere is a paucity of research in Australia on the nature of young people's attitudes, knowledge and actions. This paper reports on the findings from one such study of Australian high school students. The research was based on a survey of 5688 students from Melbourne and Brisbane. These young people identified protection of the environment as the most important problem In Australia and strongly supported the belief systems characteristic of an ‘environmental paradigm’. Despite this, the majority displayed relatively low levels of knowledge of key environmental concepts, and were involved in little environmental action-taking outside of household activities. Differences are reported between: students from Melbourne and Brisbane; girls and boys; high performing and general schools; and teachers and students. The paper concludes with a discussion of some implications for environmental education in Australia.

AIM: The aim of the research was to find out the differences in the level of motor learning (ML) and general intelligence (IQ). The research sample included 120 boys and girls of primary school and grammar school aged 12-17 years and the subsequent identification of a possible relationship between the two indicators. METHODS: 120 students Elementary school (ES) and Secondary Grammar School (SGS) took part in testing the level of motor learning and intelligence (n = 120). We evaluated the level of ML in boys and girls in the demonstration of learned gymnastic elements. We used the intelligence test to determine the level of general intelligence [1]. RESULTS: The results did not show significant differences in the level of motor learning and intelligence between the genders in either age category. Correlation analysis confirmed a significant relationship between ML and IQ excluding the gender factor (r = -0.297). When gender was taken into account, the relationship was seen only in boys (r = -0.312). We note that we found a lower rate of ML in students with a higher level of intelligence. CONCLUSION: We assume the continuity of certain mental and motor processes, which is called motor intelligence. The results of our research did not show significant differences in the level of ML and IQ in both genders. Boys slightly dominated in ML, girls in IQ. This difference decreases with increasing age.

Renaissance boys and girls attended a variety of different kinds of pre-university schools in England, France, Italy, and Spain. Renaissance Europe inherited from the Middle Ages a large educational establishment that was not a "school system" in a modern sense. Instead, there were different kinds of schools which complemented or overlapped each other. The many and confusing names for pre-university schools, such as song school, grammar school, and collège, further confuse matters.

The article features the analysis of features of physiological adaptation and the rate of physiological development in boys and girls of preparatory kindergarten groups and 1 – 2 grades of grammar school. The analysis points out the differences of neurodynamic indicators, physiological adaptation and the degree of activity of the autonomic nervous system among 6 – 8 year-old boys and girls. It has been found that, regardless of age, boys are characterized by a lower level of development of mental functions, lower balance of processes of excitation and inhibition in the central nervous system, with faster visual-motor response. They are characterized by a higher degree of tension of regulatory mechanisms. Individuals with symptoms of attention deficit and social-psychological deficits are often detected in this group. Girls display neurodynamic indicators that are most optimal for the corresponding age period, a high level of mental functions development; in this group we observed mainly balanced or parasympathetic influence on heart rate and more satisfactory functional state.

With the purpose of getting an insight into the effects of problem-based teaching and learning, an experiment was carried out by using the method of parallel groups on the sample of 204 pupils in the third and sixth grade of primary school. The results of final knowledge assessment showed that problem-based teaching and learning of grammar had positive influence on pupils' attainment comparing to the usual way of learning grammar. A significant improvement has been achieved in the field of reproductive and productive grammar knowledge on the whole sample of pupils as well as on the subsamples of pupils in the third and sixth grade. Because of the limited time left for this experimental programme, the reproductive knowledge of pupils was bigger than the productive knowledge. It has been noticed that regarding the successfulness of solving the grammatical problems, there was no difference between the pupils of younger and older primary school age, in the situation when these problems were decided on according to their age and intellectual abilities. All pupils had made an improvement, but they remained within the range of their marks in Serbian language. In addition to this, better progress was made by the pupils with better marks in Serbian language. Girls were more successful than boys, but the difference between boys and girls was smaller regarding the reproductive knowledge than the productive knowledge.

This study reports research employing a three-phase methodology to investigate the nature and communication of the school culture of the Anglican Church Grammar School Brisbane. A preliminary survey with open-ended questions was used to obtain general opinion on the nature of the school's culture, how it is communicated and the role of the school's organisation structure in communicating the school's culture. From the results of this preliminary survey, a set of ratings was developed and given to randomly selected samples of ex-students, parents, staff and senior students. A descriptive statistical analysis of this main survey was used in providing answers to the research questions concerning the nature of the school's culture, the influence of the school's organisational structure on it, and how the culture is communicated within the school and to the general public. Data from the main survey were used to develop a set of scales, the Communication of School Culture Instrument, which was used to give comparisons of the perceptions of school culture by the four population sub-groups (viz. ex-students, parents, staff & students) of the school. Statistical findings from the surveys and the CSCI were complemented by a series of in-depth interviews of representatives of the school population sub-groups. Analysis of data suggested that, whilst the school's sub-groups generally shared perceptions about the nature of the school's culture, there were significant differences of opinion about how this culture was communicated and influenced by the school's organisational structure. There was also a significant difference of perspective between the adult males and females of the total school population. An analysis of perspective of ex-students from different time periods of attending the school from the 1920s to present, did not show any significant differences in perspective, suggesting a constancy of the school's culture over time. Several other areas of investigation which would be worthy of further attention are the role of mothers and female members of staff in a boys' school, and the impact of boarding students as a sub-culture would be worthy of further study in this school.

The under-representation of women entering into Information and Communication Technology (ICT) programs is a long-standing and increasing problem, commonly referred to as the shrinking IT pipeline. Over the past two decades, numerous studies have investigated the low and declining female participation in the ICT educational and vocational pipeline and have identified various factors that may influence female ICT career decisions. Some of the factors identified include national and organisational culture, lack of, or poor quality ICT career information, societal influences, discriminatory work environments, practices and policies, along with the need for appropriate ICT role models. If you add to this mixture the changing and individual needs of the students, the problem becomes increasingly complex. While some studies in this area have contributed by identifying issues and making recommendations for change, some of which have been instituted, many of the efforts have centred on senior secondary school and tertiary students. However, many of the decisions that affect future career choices have already been made by this stage and there is a lack of research exploring Australian primary and lower secondary student ICT experiences and attitudes, prior to their elective subject selections. This thesis, conducted in the emerging transdisciplinary field of Social Informatics, involves an embedded single case study of metropolitan Brisbane middle-school students. It explored the ICT attitudes and perceptions of Year 4 and Year 8 students, their ICT experiences at home and at school and the influence that these ICT perceptions, attitudes and experiences have on girls’ ICT study and career choices. This study drew on literature from a variety of research disciplines including IS and computer science, education and educational psychology, career psychology, psychology, gender science and sociology. The setting for the case study involved three school types, with strong links between the Year 4 and Year 8 levels, including a government (free tuition) coeducational school, a private (tuition charged) female single-sex school and a private (tuition charged) coeducational school. In total, 58 Year 4 and Year 8 classroom visits took place. The classroom observations lasted from one lesson block (approximately 1 hour) up to a full day, depending on the availability of the students and the type of activities planned. Eleven semi-structured group interviews were held involving 49 Year 4 students and 20 Year 8 students, and individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with six teachers. These interviews generally took place at the end of the respective school term and lasted for approximately thirty minutes each. Information about classroom ICT artefacts and documents that provided information about curriculum, subject availability and subject selection options were also collected as they became available. The main findings were that middle-school girls' study and career choices take place in an environment specific to the culture in which the choices are made, in this case the Australian context, and involve social and structural factors and individual attributes. Socioeconomic factors further shaped ICT access, ICT resources and teaching to impact on the middle-school girls’ interest in ICT study and careers. The social factors included socialisers such as family and peer groups who act as positive and negative role models and share gender and ICT stereotypes. Parents also offered career advice to the students, but none of the parents encouraged the students to be involved in ICT pathways. The girls were enthusiastic and confident users of ICT, but some of the Year 8 girls were observed downplaying their scholastic ability, possibly to fit in with their peers. The media was also found to influence and reinforce the negative perceptions of gender roles and ICT stereotypes. Structural factors, including the teacher's interest and training in ICT, the curriculum content and teaching practice, and reliability of ICT resources, had a positive or negative influence on the students' ICT experiences. These experiences were important to the students’ motivation to choose ICT study and career paths. The Year 8 Computer Studies classes seemed to be used as a form of electronic babysitting, with the content and delivery given little importance. Moreover, this research confirmed that ICT subjects are regarded as being synonymous with computer literacy, and low-level skills are being taught in these classes. This study also demonstrated how the teachers’ ICT interest and enthusiasm influenced the implementation of ICT in their classroom and the enthusiasm of their students. All of the students in this study had access to computers at school and most had at least shared access at home. However, poor quality and unreliable ICT resources had a strong negative impact on the students’ desire to engage in ICT study or career paths. These ICT resources differed between schools, with low socioeconomic status schools having unreliable and poorly maintained ICT resources. Individual attributes, such as personality, aptitude and attitudes; goals and general schemata; subjective task value and interpretations of experience, were identified as being influential to girls’ ICT study and career choices. This study demonstrated that, by encouraging peer support and allowing exploration, the teachers increased the girls’ confidence and enthusiasm for ICT. Unlike the boys, the girls did not explore the computer, were generally compliant with the rules and concentrated on completing their work. However, the girls’ demonstrated compliance with classroom expectations and being careful with resources may discourage tinkering, which has been linked to increasing ICT interest and preparation for future ICT studies. While the girls were interested in using ICT, they expressed an ‘I can, but I don’t want to’ attitude towards ICT or being involved in the ICT field. Finally, the girls did not enrol in the ICT subjects as they felt that they did not fit the stereotypical image of someone who was interested in ICT. This research has shown that interest in ICT wanes in the late middle-school years and it is highly probable that most of the students in this study will not pursue an ICT career. As a result of this research, a Model of Girls’ ICT Study and Career Choices has been developed to illustrate the factors, and their interrelationships, that influence middle-school girls’ study and career choices. Furthermore, a number of recommendations for education authorities, schools and teachers have been proposed to address the problem.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Information and Communication Technology
Faculty of Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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The amalgamation of Broadland House C.E.G.G.S. and the Launceston Church Grammar School was announced, as a fait accompli, in April 1982. The merger was to be in two stages; the separate operation of both schools under the one Headmaster from June 1982 and the completely merged schools from the beginning of 1983. Both Broadland House and the Launceston Grammar claim to be the oldest continuing schools in Australia, having been founded in 1845 and 1846 respectively. The fact that many families had been involved with either or both schools for four or five generations led to period of bitter conflict and resistance to change, which was largely overcome by the end of the first year of operation. Diminishing enrolments at both schools had been brought about largely through the rural recession in Tasmania during the 1960's, together with the provision of better school facilities and roads in the rural areas of Tasmania. The Launceston Church Grammar had become co-educational in 1972, largely as a means of survival. Previous approaches to Broadland House, by the Grammar School, to consider amalgamation had been rejected. This study endeavours to determine the strategies which led to the almost total acceptance of the amalgamation between the Broadland House Church of England Girls Grammar School and the Launceston Church Grammar School, and to explain those strategies through reference to the literature on the management of change. This involved rationalising resources, setting up new academic courses, providing physical facilities, considering the traditions of both schools, the gaining of financial, support and of developing acceptance of the change within the school community and within the community at large. The study follows the period covering the eight months of preparation prior to the amalgamation together with its first 5 years of operation, during which time the School has grown considerably and enjoys wide confidence and support. As amalgamations are occurring more regularly across the nation, it is hoped that the lessons learned through this educational innovation will be of benefit to others.

Students who identify as being from an ethnic minority are under-represented within school geography in England at Key Stage 4 (ages 14 – 16) and Key Stage 5 (ages 16 – 18). At these stages geography is an optional subject and how students view geographical knowledge may influence their GCSE and A level subject choices. This study uses an intersectional theoretical lens to explore representations of geographical knowledge by students of different ethnicities, the stories that relate to these representations and how the students accounted for the GCSE and A level subject choices that they made. The first part of the study reveals a lack of empirical and contemporary research into ethnic minority students’ views of geographical knowledge and subject choices. This is followed by a two-strand exploratory case study at one girls’ grammar school in England. The practitioner-researcher strand was two phase; in the first phase, 314 sixth form students (aged 16 – 18) completed a questionnaire to gauge initial views of geographical knowledge. During the second phase, eight of these students represented their views of geographical knowledge through collages, critical incident charts and semi-structured interviews that explored their stories in depth. In parallel, a group of Year 10 (aged 14 – 15) students as researchers used questionnaires to investigate the influence of parents and other factors contributing to students’ subject choices at GCSE level. In the study, geographical knowledge was represented in different ways given different methods. It was found to be diverse and individual, although it was possible for specific themes to be identified. The representations reflected the characteristics and concepts from students’ recent formal experiences of geography. Informal experiences also featured but these were not always explicit or straightforwardly definable. Unless students could see the intrinsic usefulness of their view of geographical knowledge then they were unlikely to choose the subject past GCSE level. This study expands theoretical conceptualisations of how students represent geographical knowledge and the factors affecting subject choice, engages students as researchers in a methodologically innovative way and provides a rich and detailed account of post-14 subject choice by ethnic minority students which otherwise does not exist in an English context.

Abstract This chapter traces Davies’s interest in the higher education of women, and explores her development of a distinctive practical approach to campaigning. Her first campaign, in support of Elizabeth Garrett’s attempt to gain admission to London University so as to qualify as a doctor, was focused more on medicine as a female profession than on degrees for women; it was Frances Power Cobbe who brought the latter issue to public attention. But it was Davies who kept up the pressure on university authorities and who, rebutted there, turned to a more practically achievable object, gaining girls admission to the school-leaving exams recently introduced by Oxford and Cambridge for grammar school boys. The chapter shows how Davies chose and went about her task, identifying institutional targets, using influential print media to make a reasoned case, setting up committees through which she could act, and working with sympathetic male collaborators.

Abstract WEC at Delhi was part of a comprehensive array of Allied sigint units, large and small, which co-operated to ensure good coverage and exchanged news when progress was made. Furthest back were the very large units at Bletchley Park and Arlington Hall, Virginia, formerly a spacious girls school. Both of them tackled the really intractable problems of high-grade crypto systems that had never yet been broken, and fundamentally new materials which had lost us the ability to read a hitherto broken system. At a halfway stage came the large American and British units at Delhi, the former called ‘US 8’, the latter WEC with its two main out-stations: Western Wireless Sub-Centre at Bangalore in south India and Eastern Wireless Sub-Centre at Barrackpore near Calcutta. These were concerned with Japanese Army and Army Air traffic. There was also a large naval sigint unit at Anderson, near Colombo, and smaller ones at Kilindini near Mombasa and on Mauritius. They worked closely with US naval stations at Guam, Leyte and elsewhere, and acted as longstop for signals, travelling 4,000 miles or more, which through the vagaries of short-wave transmission, had evaded the main chain of intercept stations. These, quite apart from the huge US network in the Pacific, ran in a great arc from Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Darwin through Ceylon to Calcutta and south China.